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Welcome to Strong Girl Talk, where we dive into the latest in sports science, performance, and well-being—all with a focus on women and girls in sport. This week Sasha and Molly are talking with Lindsey Richter, founder of Ladies AllRide. Before that, we get into Victoria Mboko’s win at the National Bank Open and chat through the controversial tennis moment that happened when a baby wouldn’t stop crying at a match. We also discuss the not-so-new sex testing policy for the World Athletics Championships, expressing concern over its impact on women athletes (listen to our full episode on it here). We also touch on our top moments from the Tour de France Femmes before getting into our convo with Lindsey, where we discuss the importance of MTB and coaching for women as well as her children's book, Etiquette is a Big Word.

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Who is Lindsey Richter? Known as a world-renowned leader in the women's mountain bike movement, Lindsey spreads her passion for mountain biking across the globe through innovative and inspirational skills camps supported by Liv Cycling. Lindsey knows firsthand how mountain biking can change lives and she is a true ambassador for the sport!

Learn more about Lindsey and Ladies AllRide on Instagram, check out Ladies AllRide, and if you’ve ridden with Lindsey and her team before share with us the amazingness of the whole event!

Sports Updates:It’s that time of the summer where there is a bit of a lull before it gets busy again.

It’s not often that you get to win a major competition on home soil, but that’s exactly what Victoria Mboko did at the 2025 Women’s National Bank Open in Montreal defeating Naomi Osaka. We loved this on Feisty Media sharing the Canadian Crowd at the Men’s National Bank Open being so excited for Victoria and disrupting the men’s match.

In other Tennis news, there’s been criticism over the Sabalenka and Raducanu match where they called out a noisy baby. What are your thoughts? Molly and Sasha offer a fun, hot take in this episode.

Do you miss the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift as much as Molly and Sasha? Yes, we cover this once more celebrating Pauline Ferrand Prevot and her great ride across France this summer.

And a final sport update, which we’ll once again stand on our soap box to say - “THIS IS NOT BREAKING NEWS - World Athletics (WA) announced that as of September 1st all Federations must submit the results of a SRY gene test for those wishing to participate in the female category. AKA Sex testing. We knew this was coming. On February 10th WA announced their consultation about female eligibility. Buried in this press release on March 25th, WA announced they would ‘ adopt a pre-clearance requirement for all athletes competing in the female category.’ So the July 30th announcement as to how WA would carry this out should be no surprise. You can listen to Molly and Sasha discuss Sex Testing, Sex Screening, and the history on an episode from April 2nd.

We’ve got some exciting updates coming for September with the start of the school year with the pod. Share with us what you want us to cover and who you want us to interview.

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Molly - @mollyjhurford @stronggirlpublishing

Sasha - @SGollishRuns @Yellow_Running_Shoes

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